Roxane Gay, a powerful literary voice and one of today’s most-watched cultural critics, joins in a reading and conversation with acclaimed fiction writer Katia D. Ulysse. Gay’s best-selling books include Bad Feminist; Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body; and Difficult Women. Ulysse is the author of Drifting and Mouths Don’t Speak. The writers, who both have Haitian roots, will read from new works before a discussion with Tami Navarro of the Barnard Center for Research on Women.

Presented with the Center for the Study of Women in Society; the Barnard Center for Research on Women; Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism; Women Writing Women’s Lives; the Society of Fellows in the Humanities and the Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University. Part of the series Critical Caribbean Feminisms.